A 10-MAN delegation from Hamid Karzai’s high peace council has flown to the Turkish capital to ask Ankara to host embryonic political contacts with the Taliban.
The council will ask Turkey to host a “Taliban office” or negotiating base where Taliban envoys would be free to meet representatives of Mr Karzai’s government.
Opening such an office would stop short of official recognition of the insurgents, but would show that Kabul and the West were serious about negotiation, sources told The Irish Times.
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